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Une enquête à Murray Bay (QA roman)
Par Céline Beaudet. 2022
Pointe-au-Pic, 1er juillet 1910. La famille Brockwell débarque du St.Irénée, un luxueux navire. Alice, la matriarche désabusée, Edwin et Irene,…
les aînés craignant tout changement qui pourrait menacer leurs privilèges et leurs mœurs dissipées, et Elizabeth, la benjamine suffragiste : les revoici enfin à Murray Bay, l'oasis qui n'existe que pour les happy fewThe Bohemian murders: a Fremont Jones mystery
Par Dianne Day. 1997
In 1907, Fremont Jones follows the man she loves to Carmel. But Michael now calls himself "Misha" and seems quite…
changed. When confused Fremont takes a temporary job as a lighthouse keeper, she spots a dead woman floating in Monterey Bay and becomes obsessed with identifying her. Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexFaraway summer
Par Johanna Hurwitz. 1998
In 1910, orphaned Dossi, twelve, lives with her seamstress sister, Ruthi, in a New York tenement. Ruthi signs Dossi up…
for a Fresh Air Fund vacation on a Vermont farm. Dossi knows the family members are puzzled by her Jewish customs, but she can't understand why the daughter is so unfriendly to her. For grades 5-8Ship of the line
Par C. S Forester. 1938
May 1810. Horatio Hornblower is now in command of his first ship, the HMS Sutherland, but he has one major…
problem--the crew is short by about 250 men. He hires whoever are willing and has them trained well enough to stage five solo raids against the French army and navy along the coast of Spain. Sequel to Beat to Quarters (RC 46120, BR 11555)American dreams
Par John Jakes. 1998
Continues the Crown family saga begun in Homeland (BR 09462). Paul, twenty-nine, a well-known photographer, travels the world making news…
documentaries, some of which get him in trouble with the British government. His cousin Carl satisfies a passion for cars and flying, becoming a daring aviator, and cousin Fritzi becomes an actress in Hollywood. Some strong language. BestsellerScam
Par Parnell Hall. 1997
Cranston Pritchert, a new client of New York PI Stanley Hastings, claims his partners set him up to lose control…
of an investment firm by having a woman get him drunk in a bar. When Hastings uncovers evidence that Pritchert himself arranged for the woman's involvement, the investigator begins to suspect that he, too, is being duped. Strong languageLes tumultes du siècle: roman
Par Keith Oatley. 2000
The collected stories
Par Amanda Cross. 1997
Ten short mysteries, all but one featuring professor Kate Fansler. All were previously published by the pseudonymous academic, Amanda Cross.…
In these selections, the calamities range from missing persons to murderThe souvenir
Par Patricia Carlon. 1996
Four years ago Marion Burton's brother Jack was stabbed to death when he tried to separate two teenage girls who…
were quarreling in an Australian park. Each girl claimed the other one did it, and neither has ever changed her statement. Now Marion takes all the legal files and clippings about the case to Jefferson Shields and asks him to solve the puzzleSarah on her own (American dreams)
Par Karen Coombs. 1996
Orphaned fourteen-year-old Sarah survives the 1620 trip from London to the New World, but her aunt does not. Her aunt's…
fiance, who sent for them, has also died. Not wanting to marry, become an indentured servant, or settle on the land she has been allotted, Sarah searches for a way home. Violence. For junior and senior high readersGallows Hill
Par Lois Duncan. 1997
When her mother marries, Californian Sarah Zoltanne is forced to spend her senior year in a small Missouri town. At…
the Halloween festival, Sarah reluctantly agrees to play fortune teller. Using her Hungarian grandmother's crystal ball, Sarah really sees things that frighten her--especially when they happen. Some violence. For grades 6-9Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Par Mildred Taylor, Jerry Pinkney. 1976
Nine-year-old Cassie Logan recalls a turbulent time in Mississippi during the Great Depression--a year of night riders, burnings, and threats.…
She describes her African American family's struggle to survive with their dignity and independence intact. Some strong language. For grades 6-9. Newbery Award. 1976Deux sœurs et un secret
Par Éliane Saint-Pierre. 2021
Montréal, 1942. Alors que la guerre fait rage de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique et que l'ombre de la conscription guette…
les Canadiens français, Yvonne Lafleur se soumet à des ordres bien différents de ceux de l'armée : à dix-sept ans, elle décide d'entrer chez les sœurs de Notre-Dame, à Saint-Hyacinthe. Sa famille accueille son départ pour le couvent avec perplexité. Pourquoi choisir un tel destin ? D'autant plus que la jeune fille n'est pas si pieuse. Seulement, sérieuse et déterminée, elle rêve d'enseigner. Yvonne se montre donc ravie quand sa congrégation l'envoie travailler dans une école de rang de Lanaudière. Aspirant vivement à devenir mère, sa sœur Marthe ne tarde pas à épouser le beau Claude McCoy et à s'installer sur la ferme des Cantons-de-l'Est qu'il a reçue en héritage. Si son mode de vie contrasté demande une adaptation, c'est avec un enthousiasme sincère que la Montréalaise embrasse sa nouvelle existence. Mais l'avenir prometteur de celles qu"on surnommait "les jumelles de Mme Lafleur" s'effondre soudain. Au cœur de leurs campagnes isolées, pourront-elles s'allier pour combattre, main dans la main, leurs sombres infortunes ?The running woman
Par Patricia Carlon. 1998
Australian teenager Carol Zamia is found dead in a creek. A neighbor saw a woman in white running from the…
scene, and Zamia's parents accuse the young widow Gabriel Endicott. Gabriel admits to being at the crime scene but says she knows nothing about the murder. Now she must prove itSink or swim
Par Gerald Hammond. 1996
Wallace James's activity level is slowed by heart trouble and angina, but he still works in his sporting-goods shop in…
the highlands of Scotland. Listening to his CB radio, he overhears a blackmail attempt. It seems Colonel McInsch had failed to save a neighbor from drowning. Now there is some doubt as to the death's accidental nature. With his wife Janet's help, James investigatesLord Hornblower
Par C. S Forester. 1946
The Hornblower saga continues as the intrepid commodore becomes a peer of the realm by quelling a mutiny and concluding…
his private war with Napoleon. Incidentally, he rekindles his romance with the lovely French Marie. Sequel to Commodore Hornblower (RC 26916, BR 11558)La ville des frelons: roman
Par Patricia Cornwell. 1998
En plus de l'enquête criminelle qu'elle propose, l'auteur, qui s'est taillé une belle place dans le monde de la littérature…
policière, dépeint dans ce roman, le chaos, la tragédie sociale, la violence et l'absurdité des rues de l'Amérique qu'elle connaîtFull dress gray
Par Lucian Truscott. 1998
In this sequel to Dress Gray (RC 16136, BRA 16533), Ry Slaight returns to West Point thirty years after he…
graduated, this time as the new superintendent. His first day on the job, a young woman cadet dies on parade. During the ensuing investigation, Slaight's daughter Jacey, also a cadet, helps uncover a conspiracy involving students and officers. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexThe unprotected witness
Par James Stevenson. 1997
Even though Pete's father was in the federal witness protection program, he was killed, and there is still the matter…
of missing money. The gangsters who want the money figure Pete knows where it is hidden. When Pete finds the telephone bugged, he realizes that he is an unprotected witness who needs friends more than ever. Sequel to The Bones in the Cliff (BR 10483). For grades 4-7Blanche cleans up
Par Barbara Neely. 1998
When Blanche White reluctantly agrees to fill in as housekeeper for a vacationing friend, she encounters a family in chaos.…
Mr. Brindle's campaign for governor is disrupted by a murder and a suicide in his household. Some of his African American supporters are particularly scornful and suspicious of Blanche. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex